Monthly sewer service charges shall include a minimum charge per month for each dwelling unit and/or business unit served, to cover administrative costs and the thousands of gallons of service received up to a specified minimum per month per dwelling unit and/or business unit, plus a charge per 1,000 gallons above the stated minimum per unit. Monthly sewer service charges shall be based upon readings of the water meter or an authorized sewer meter, and shall be as indicated in the following table. In the table, the term “per unit” means per each dwelling unit and/or business unit served by a customer.
Customer Type* | Gallons | Minimum Per Unit 1/1/2018 | Gallons Over Minimum 1/1/2018 |
Single Family / Multi-Unit | 3,000 | $22.50 | $6.83 |
Commercial and C.B. Smith | 3,000 | $22.50 | $6.83 |
Holly Lakes | 3,000 | $22.50 | $6.83 |
South Florida State Hospital | 1,000 | $6.83 | $6.83 |
Everglades Holiday Park and Broward Correctional | 0 | $22.50 | $6.83 |
*Rates not shown shall be as determined by the City Utilities Division on a case-by-case basis, based upon factors that include comparable uses in other jurisdictions, industry standards and other reliable sources of information.
Adjustments.
(A) Pool Credit - In accordance with § 50.55(B), water required to fill a completely drained swimming pool shall not be discharged into the city sewer system. Therefore, water used in filling a completely drained swimming pool shall not be included as the basis for a monthly sewer service charge. The city shall calculate the volume of water used for filling the pool. The sewer service charge for that month shall be based upon the volume of the pool minus the average of the previous six-month water consumption.
(B) Partial Sewer Credit - Metered water which is leaked to the ground may be eligible for a sewer credit. The customer shall supply a copy of a plumbers repair bill within 60 days of the discovery of the leak. The city may issue a credit based on the difference between the previous six-month water consumption and the consumption during the month of the leak.
(C) In addition to the above, monthly billings shall include any of the following charges which are applicable.
(1) Penalty Charges. See § 50.08.
(2) Excess Pollutants Surcharge. An excess pollutants surcharge shall be added to a residential or commercial customer’s monthly service charge if that customer’s sewage contains either more than 300 ppm of BOD or more than 300 ppm of SS. A surcharge will be added in any month during which any analysis of the user’s sewage, either scheduled or unscheduled, indicates a concentration of greater than 300 ppm for either pollutant. Once established, a surcharge will be added for each succeeding month, and shall continue until analysis of samples of the user’s sewage taken in each of three consecutive months indicate average concentrations of less than 300 ppm for each pollutant. (See Note, following.)
The surcharge shall be computed for each month by the following formulas:
XPS = (MTG) x (XPR) x (XBD + XSS)
XPS = Excess Pollutants Surcharge
MTG = User’s Metered Thousand Gallons for the month = Same as for base monthly service charge
XPR = Excess Pollutants Rate = (Total O & M costs of city sewer system for preceding fiscal year) divided by (Total Thousands of Gallons of sewage billed to customers by the city during the preceding fiscal year) divided by (300 ppm, maximum concentration in sanitary sewage).
XBD = Excess BOD Concentration = (ppm of BOD in Customer’s Sewage) minus 300. See Note, below.
XSS = Excess SS Concentration = (ppm of SS in Customer’s Sewage) minus 300. See Note, below.
NOTE: For the first month that an XPS is added, the ppm of pollutants used in computing XBD and XSS shall be the largest concentration determined in any analysis conducted during that month. The same values shall be continued in succeeding months, unless any subsequent analysis is higher, or analyses taken in each of three consecutive months indicate an average concentration that is more than 5% below the current value. Nothing in these provisions shall be construed as a requirement that analyses must be conducted monthly. A three-month series of analyses shall be initiated only if specifically desired by either the city or the customer.
(Ord. 641, passed 12-15-82; Am. Ord. 1414, passed 6-19-02; Am. Ord.1888, passed 10-4-17; Am. Ord. 1978, passed 11-17-21)